Re: I need help compiling on Mandrake 8.0

[Berk Geveci]

        It looks like you need to install zlib. I am sure Mandrake has
        an rpm for it.

Thomas Stuart wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I just installed Mandrake 8 and now I want to get some work done. However,
> neither old RedHat RPMS nor compiling myself seems to work. When I run
> ./configure I get several messages like this in the config.log. In
> desperation I have installed the glibc 2.1 compatibility libraries, but I
> can't seem to find a way to force configure to ignore the glibc 2.2.2 ones.
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated!
> 
> Thanks
> Thomas
> >>> config.log >>>
> 
> configure:5787: gcc -o conftest -g -O2  -g conftest.c -ldl -lz -lm  1>&5
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> configure: failed program was:
> #line 5770 "configure"
> #include "confdefs.h"
> #ifdef TIME_WITH_SYS_TIME
> #include <sys/time.h>
> #include <time.h>
> #else
> #ifdef HAVE_SYS_TIME_H
> #include <sys/time.h>
> #else
> #include <time.h>
> #endif
> #endif
> int main() {
> struct timeval time; struct timezone dummy;
>   gettimeofday (&time, &dummy);
> ; return 0; }
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